BBC Sound Of 2018 winner  Sigrid, today releases ‘Raw’, the first in a collection of brand new material, set to drop every week for the next five weeks. The last few months have been remarkable for the Norwegian pop sensation. From a blisteringly beautiful Nobel Peace Prize performance, moving Helen Mirren on the Graham Norton Show, to reaching the top 10 in the UK charts with A-list single ‘Strangers’. Sigrid now has a global reach of 185M streams and 2M sales with the mood-defining Don’t Kill My Vibe EP and brutally honest...

A homeless man has been fined hundreds of pounds for missing a £1.50 train fare. Thomas Draper was ordered to pay more than £645 after he did not pay for his fare in August 2017. The 38-year-old’s registered address was a shelter in Bristol and run by charity St Mungo’s. Bristol Magistrates Court heard Draper was travelling on a Great Western Railway (GWR) train when he was stopped in Bristol for not paying his fare of £1.50. In his absence,...

An 18-year-old Egyptian student has died three weeks after she was brutally battered by a 10-strong girl gang in a suspected racist attack. Mariam Moustafa was left in a coma after being jumped by the group of female yobs outside a shopping centre while she waited for a bus at 8pm on February 20. The teenager had been shopping in Nottingham city centre before she was repeatedly assaulted by the women in an unprovoked attack on Parliament Street. The engineering...

Britain's oldest football fan who never missed listening to a single game of her favourite team on the radio has died - AGED 107. Dedicated Dolly Smith followed Derby County FC for more than 70 years and always wore her scarf every time they played. She remarkably only went to two matches - a friendly against Birmingham City to mark her 100th birthday and another against German club TSG Hoffenheim to celebrate turning 107 last summer. Dolly Smith with her...

Unilever has delivered a fresh blow to beleaguered Britain after it announced its permanent HQ would be based in Rotterdam over London. The announcement is one of the latest corporate moves that questions the impact of Brexit on the UK economy. Despite the brand distancing itself from the UK's exit from the European Union, experts agree that the timing shows it was undoubtedly a big consideration. Dr Carmen Stoian, Lecturer in International Business in the Kent Business School at the University...

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The Russian flag was temporarily lowered at their embassy in West London yesterday following Theresa May's announcement that 23 diplomats were to be expelled from the UK. A man was pictured removing the Russian flag from a pole from the roof of the diplomatic mission in Kensington. Moments later, the same man appeared with a different flag before hoisting it up the flag pole. A journalist for the BBC tweeted: "Just got all excited as a bloke jumped out of...

Young people are now more likely to set up their own small business than any other age group. According to new research almost 69 per cent of new businesses set up in the past five years were started by those aged between 18-34. And 27 is the age Brits are most likely to take the risk of starting a company by themselves. Gary Turner, MD and co-founder of Xero, which carried out the study, said: “Small business owners don’t always...

Ruben Östlund’s mountain set ski drama, Force Majeure, landed with a bang at Cannes in 2014 and was quickly blanketed by an avalanche of critical success. Three years’ later, the Swedish born director returned and took home the festival’s top prize with The Square, a biting satire of the art world and a surreal, madcap deep dive into the complexities and flaws of humankind. Christian (Claes Bang), the model of Scandi-cool, is handsomely dishevelled in his fitted blazers, open neck...